It's so easy waking up every morning and counting your flaws rather than your blessings. As usual for any teenage girl we spend a lot of time looking in the mirror complaing or worrying that we aren't good enough. Well at least this is something I definately do a lot. I mean society is so tough on girls it's really hard to stay confident and not be so harsh on our looks.
For me personally I find it so hard to see the beauty in myself because of how beauty is portrayed by the media. It's honestly heartbreaking for me sometimes.
Today after ranting for about 10 minutes on how much weight I have put on in the past few months and how the fat hasn't gone to that one body area every girl wants it to go to ( my boobs ) I turned on the tv to something very humbling.
What I saw didn't make me a 100% more confident on the way I look but it definately made me more appreciative of not only my looks but for proper health and functioning body organs.
What I saw was an 18 month year old boy who was born with four of his toes stuck together on each foot and four of his fingers on each hand. His face was also completely deformed and his parents are fairly young and can't even afford for their son to have surgery.
I felt terrible for complaing about my appearance when there are so many children and even people my age who have disfigured body parts but still go through each day with a smile on their face. So many people out there have to go through all different types of surgeries to fix body parts.
Who am I to complain?
This is so beautiful and so true. Very well written, well done!
ReplyDeleteGood for you!! If we forever try to live up to the unrealistic expectations/standards which society sets - we could drive ourselves to distraction. There is nothing more beautiful than a compassionate nature and a concern for the welfare of others.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right when you say how we have so much to be thankful for - we can so often take for granted the many blessings which have come our way. To thine own self be true.